Parklife

So on Monday (I think) we (Albert, Lindsay, Chris and me) nipped over on the ferry to Centre Island (which is like a big park). Caribana was still going on (very loudly) on one of the other islands but we decided that we'd had our fill and we just wanted to relax. I didn't really know what we were going to do, as with most of my life, I had a girl organising me.

Anwway, it seems the plan was to go canoeing in the morning. I'm obviously an expert now as I have been twice. This one was a bit more interesting as there were more things in the lake, we could row almost into the main lake, and also there were more other people.


I had Chris in my canoe and Lindsay took Albert. In a change from before, I was steering whereas Albert had steered in our previous attempt. I actually preferred steering as I think I was putting too much effort in before which meant we went round in circles a lot. So we canoed around for 2 hours,under bridges, around boats and trees (although one time we got beached, we managed to get ourselves out). It went really quickly as well, the only problem was that I noticed I had a horrible blister on my thumb (which is still there): -



We also had a good view of Toronto: -



After canoeing we had lunch. I thought I would try poutine, which I was led to believe was very nice (basically chips, cheese and gravy I think). However, this one was not very nice at all. The gravy was thick, the cheese curds were not nice and the chips weren't great either. I ate a lot of it because I was hungry but I don't think I will have it again.


After lunch we hired some bikes and rode around the island for about an hour and a half. The island is allegedly 6km long, so seeing as we went from one end to the other and back, that suggests we cycled about 12k (shocking). There is a clothing optional beach on the island but we didn't go there, although we did see some oldish guy, not fully naked, but wearing a thong which sat low on his front as well so he had a lot of ginger hair showing....not pleasant. The bikes were weird as they didn't have brakes, you had to back peddle to stop, and also they had no bell to warn pedestrians, of which there were many. I got used to it but it was weird.

So three and a half hours of exercise later (which is an awful lot for me) we decided to call it a day. Albert suggested frisbee, but I was far too tired for that (in fact, my muscles ached for days after that). We did stop on the grass for a bit before we went home though, which was nice. The weather was pretty perfect for the day we had, sunny, bit of wind, not too hot...and no sunburn for me, woohoo